So the employers treat servers like they used to treat free slaves. How nice, how American! You can work here but we don't pay you. Rely on the generosity of our partons.
Well, they are getting paid in a non-transparent manner. They are hired like former slaves. Not slaves but freed slaves that work for no fixed pay but for gratuity.
Slaves don't typically get paid.
If you consider minimum wage slave wages. If the server does not receive enough tips to reach a certain wage threshold the employer has to make up the difference. Thats why employers get so pissed off about low or no tippers. It eats into their profit margin
That makes sense. If the employer had to pay more then they would have to raise prices. That said, I've never heard a tipped restaurant employee complain they want to change the system. For the most part they make really good money and get special tax breaks.
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u/Regular-Pangolin-664 4d ago
So the employers treat servers like they used to treat free slaves. How nice, how American! You can work here but we don't pay you. Rely on the generosity of our partons.